I'm not trying to be a jerk, but the facts were pretty much Steve got alot of stories, because he just got emails and memos from Metro's publicity department first and stories that's roots are in PR departments do they exactly qualify as stories?

Did he ever even take the bus one time?

And going back to the California section, the City of LA is almost 70% people of color, kind of odd that coverage didn't ever seem to paint that picture.

Browne

Damien attends a lot of government meetings and reads a lot of government documents in order to provide us with information. But he is only one person. It's important for us to share what information we might pick up.

I'm slogging through the Rand Report (630 pages) originally reported on Streetsblog on Feb 2, but if anyone else wants to read it (about a 4 MB download),
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG748.pdf

Are you saying because Steve is a reporter that he cannot have a personal opinion on anything whatsoever, ever, 24 hours a day? He can't have an active role in his community?

He is a human being, just like the rest of us, so he can't fit whatever ideal you have constructed of him. No one can.

"I think that’s the big thing. I know people say that you’re gaining quality time by riding the train even though it takes longer. But, I don’t buy that."Steve Hymon the hymen

Transit cannot and does not beat the private car outside of rush at anytime, anywhere. Why does such an honest man create such a web of lies just to cover his lazy ass? Why would a "reporter" who just presents the facts go on record suggesting to Ridley-Thomas that he should withold his vote on the Purple Line extension to politically move ahead his districts Crenshaw Line? Steve is obviously not an advocate for transit since he thinks that people who ride transit are all poor anyway and that's not even the beginning of the problem. The root of the problem is why is he such a liar?

http://www.thebusbench.com/2008/12/the-best-of-the-bus-2008.html

If you want advocacy, look to the editorials page. We need Steve Hymon to continue doing his job the way he's doing it.

"C" I completely understand your outrage. And the bullet point breakdown that you made about Hymon up above and why he should be removed from covering mass transit is a strong case indeed! I love your passion!

Demonizing one of the best and most useful voices that transit in this county has does not help your cause, and resorting to juvenile name calling does not exactly make you come off as classy, let alone reasonable.

That's all it comes down to. I wouldn't ever take the bus if I didn't have to transfer to it from the purple line, but I like riding the subway. If the subway wasn't there, I'd be driving, simple as that. I have the means to, and I'm poor as shit.

Getting an old Honda or Toyota isn't that hard.

One month ago when asked how he commutes he blazingly says that since he has money he drives suggesting that if one doesn't drive that means they don't have money. He also stated that he could drive the 110 during rush in under 30 minutes. The first statement a jab at all of us who CHOOSE to ride transit and those of us who may have less of an alternative. Nevertheless, unfortunate choice of words for him. The second is just a str8 out LIE.

Then yesterday he goes on record suggesting to Ridley-Thomas that the most strategic way to get his districts Crenshaw Line some needed attention is to withold his very valuable vote from a possible decision on the acceleration of a Purple Line timeline. Ridley-Thomas goes on record as wisely non-responsive.

Good reporter?

Beyond that, give it a rest. You try filing as much hard news as he does in a professional way, day in and day out. See what happens to your bleeding heart.

Bloggers can't hack it because, fankly, the job doesn't pay enough. It is a hard job being a journalist, and eventually the job throws yo into domains that you are not an expert in. So, you write according to what you've been taught to do with new information.

Hymon is a good reporter. Leave the personal attacks for the politicians.

So if Steve Hymen Hymon is just a reporter then why is he suggesting to Ridley-Thomas' today in his column that he should play politics with the extension of the Purple Line by witholding his vote because of the pronouncement of a possible delay in the projected startup date of the Crenshaw Line? Doesn't sound like JUST A REPORTER to me. Wasn't he just bemoaning the political infighting (pre-Measure R passage) of Vicadin Molina, Zev Yarowindblows, Antonibitch and others and how we would never have a comprehensive system so long as politics trump progress in LA County? And now he's on record telling Ridley-Thomas to perhaps withold his vote for the Subway to further the Crenshaw Line as a strategy in fact going so far as saying "that's what I would do". What a fucking hypocrite! This is just str8 up dishonest journalism. Cover his ass if want but you reveal more about what the true intentions of your "advocacy" is than what you might want the rest of us to know.
Remove Steve the hymen from reporting on anything concerning a bus, a train or even a bus that thinks that it is a train!
And the cooked noodles who sit around sympathizing with this kind of bullshit instead of just calling it out are no better than the soft shoe fickle ass politicians that you so readily disparage.